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Prominent Harare advocate Eric Matinenga, appearing for Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ), told Justice Marie-Anne Gowora that the court should declare the publishing firm licensed to publish after the Supreme Court last year ruled that the state Media and Information Commission (MIC) that licences newspapers was biased against ANZ.
A lawyer for the MIC, Mercy Chizodza, told the court that it could not grant a licence to ANZ because the information supplied when the company made its application in 2003 was now outdated.
The Zimbabwe government, desperate to keep a lid on dissension amid a worsening economic crisis, has banned five newspapers and the few private radio stations that had attempted to open up. – ZimOnline
12.10.2006
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Daily News legal wrangle latest
HARARE - The Daily News saga continues. The latest development in the lengthy and convoluted legal battle came on Monday as a Zimbabwe High Court judge reserved judgment in an application by the publishing company of the banned Daily News newspaper to be granted an interim licence to publish the pap